Today's training:
Run/walking 6.52 miles
Average pace: 12'19"
Total time: 1h20'
Ok, today I totally earned my Slow Runner moniker. I'm never fast in the morning anyway, but this was ridiculous. For the first 4 miles, I was struggling a lot, but managing to keep a relatively quick average pace (~11'30"/mile) while alternating 3 minutes of running and 1 minutes of walking. Then I was so tired that I switched to 2 minutes running, 1 minute walking and kept at that for a little while. Then I got to the point where I just didn't want to move my legs fast anymore, so I walked for about a 3/4 mile before going back to 2 minutes running, 1 walking for the last mile.
It was seriously exhausting, and disheartening. Six-and-a-half miles is barely a quarter of what I'll have to do for the marathon and it was HARD. I've run more than this before, without walk breaks even. Why is it so difficult now? I guess part of it is the heat. I managed to get myself up and out of bed by 10 to start running, but the heat was already getting pretty bad. I guess I'll just have to get used to waking up early in the summer months. That shouldn't be so hard considering the ungodly hour the sun's coming up at these days.
The other thing I was reminded of was my first 5-mile run when I was preparing for the half-marathon last year. That was another seriously hard run, I think again because of the heat and also because my body was having to get used to longer runs. Maybe this is just that same problem again.
No matter, for my next long run, I'm definitely going to start right away with taking walk breaks every 2 minutes instead of 3. That's what Jeff Galloway says I should be doing anyway at my snail's pace.
Run/walking 6.52 miles
Average pace: 12'19"
Total time: 1h20'
Ok, today I totally earned my Slow Runner moniker. I'm never fast in the morning anyway, but this was ridiculous. For the first 4 miles, I was struggling a lot, but managing to keep a relatively quick average pace (~11'30"/mile) while alternating 3 minutes of running and 1 minutes of walking. Then I was so tired that I switched to 2 minutes running, 1 minute walking and kept at that for a little while. Then I got to the point where I just didn't want to move my legs fast anymore, so I walked for about a 3/4 mile before going back to 2 minutes running, 1 walking for the last mile.
It was seriously exhausting, and disheartening. Six-and-a-half miles is barely a quarter of what I'll have to do for the marathon and it was HARD. I've run more than this before, without walk breaks even. Why is it so difficult now? I guess part of it is the heat. I managed to get myself up and out of bed by 10 to start running, but the heat was already getting pretty bad. I guess I'll just have to get used to waking up early in the summer months. That shouldn't be so hard considering the ungodly hour the sun's coming up at these days.
The other thing I was reminded of was my first 5-mile run when I was preparing for the half-marathon last year. That was another seriously hard run, I think again because of the heat and also because my body was having to get used to longer runs. Maybe this is just that same problem again.
No matter, for my next long run, I'm definitely going to start right away with taking walk breaks every 2 minutes instead of 3. That's what Jeff Galloway says I should be doing anyway at my snail's pace.
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